Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not believe my luck that nobody else had the sense to carry you off but that you should still be there for me and that — ’ Well , that could be taken two ways , on second thoughts that might not be the thing to say , no ; ‘ my luck that you should want me in the same way that I want you . |
| 2 | We will also insure you in the same way following an accident involving any trailer while attached to your motor cycle . |
| 3 | In the meantime , while your kitten is polishing her hunting skills by stalking your feet , you can introduce her to the civilised way to eat . |
| 4 | But the sight of her in tears disarmed him in the strangest way . |
| 5 | The carer then holds him in the same way as if he was sitting on the side of the bed , with his head resting on her shoulder , and lifts him up and round onto the second chair . |
| 6 | There is said to be an area on the knee called The Three-Mile Point ; it sounds wonderful for runners because , practitioners say , if you touch it in the right way , you 'll have enough energy to run another three miles . |
| 7 | He should understand that ‘ the story of Christ is simply a true myth : a myth working on us in the same way as the others , but with this tremendous difference that it really happened : and one must be content to accept it in the same way . ’ |
| 8 | In particular , he suggests that the educational system has a marked effect on the production and reproduction of scientific knowledge , and criticizes it for the ahistorical way in which it teaches scientific problems , theories , experiments and proofs . |
| 9 | He paused , eyeing her in the clinical way she 'd come to recognise . |
| 10 | This is the time to know how fear works and to tackle it in the right way . |
| 11 | Can you hold it here so it 's security keys and I have n't turned it round the other way . |
| 12 | Patrick has plenty to say on such subjects , and he says it in the lordly way which does much to furnish the book with its presiding idiom . |
| 13 | LEFT Especially if you are not used to fitting a check chain , take care to ensure that you put it on the right way round . |
| 14 | So , I put it on the other way round this morning and he hates it , I 've only just done it |
| 15 | Wallington ( 1985 : 159 ) put it in the following way : |
| 16 | How would the bank staff know if hed put it in the wrong way round … it just does nt ‘ suck ’ it in. unless he forces it in . |
| 17 | Now it 's naughty with a capital N. So you do n't do it , or you do n't do it in the normal way , which is relying on somebody inside a company to tell you things . |
| 18 | That , that 's a sensible kind of conclusion to draw and perhaps this would meet Kirsty 's point as well , because the what you might be tempted to say is look erm , in our cultures we have , we have absorbed from our cultures ways of seeing the world , bits about history and things restructure our thoughts and even when we try and do something new , I 'd say let's have a revolution everybody , put up your barricades , you know , actually we had some great fun in the sixties with that erm the , when this happens there 's a tendency to nevertheless do it in the traditional way , in other words although obviously the sixty eight revolution was about a completely different issue than the seventeen ninety eight revolution , it was very much later in history . |
| 19 | As Linda Nochlin said , ‘ Not all women artists are feminists ; not all feminist artists wish to incorporate their feminist identity into their art works , and certainly , even if some of them do , none of them will do it in the same way ’ . |
| 20 | Do they affect you in the same way ? |
| 21 | If you have answered ‘ yes ’ to three or more of them , you are probably perpetuating this self-image by looking for friends or partners who will treat you in the same way . |
| 22 | If you are not in a position to be ruthless about getting rid of people on the platform , school them in the proper way to behave — sitting still , looking towards the speaker and not thumping the table in their enthusiasm . |
| 23 | They do n't er , you ca n't see them in the same way you could go and see your parents . |
| 24 | Part of the time he sees them in the familiar way as creatures who lack rationality to at least some degree . |
| 25 | ‘ Why not go and see him in the proper way instead of lurking around by night ? ’ |
| 26 | Two-year-old Sam Brit-ton-Gant 's enthusiasm for his child 's plastic toilet seat was so great that , having used it in the traditional way , he decided it might make an attractive necklace . |
| 27 | Well I do n't see how , all you 've got to do is turn it upside down , you could still run it through the same way |
| 28 | In other words while the public may have all watched the same news they did n't all see it in the same way . |
| 29 | jelly boy put the tape in then Aaron and I 'll press , there I 'll fast forward it , no you 've got it , you 've got it , no you have n't got it round the right way |
| 30 | He does n't defend it as the best way of getting the correct decision , he does n't defend it , or he does n't solely defend it that way he does n't defend it either on the idea that people have right to be tried by their peers for example which is the most likely defence now , but he defends jury service on the grounds of the effect it has on the jurors which is quite a novel erm . |